PGA Colonial Golf

Jason Dufner hits on the eighth fairway

  When I was a kid, I thought that golfers were either really stodgy business men who never dressed down  or really goofy clowns. The stodgy ones wore the slacks and collared shirts in some color that they would not wear to work. The clowns got to wear those bloomed out knickers and funky hats, crazy plaids and seemed to have all the fun. Over the years I get the impression that the PGA game has gotten a bit more conservative, example of Jason Dufner who leads the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. The other extreme is this group of young players that are looking for the brightest, wildest colors. It is like they are trying to stand out in a crowd like the beer guys at a ball game. In a gallery of the generic folks, Rickie Fowler in Friday's outfit sure fits the later billing.

Rickie Fowler retrieves his ball on the eighth